Word: kariuki
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...Nancy Kariuki began using skin-lightening creams aged 18 after she developed a rash on her face. "After a few weeks I noticed where the patch had been was very smooth," says Kariuki, now 30, who works as a production assistant in a Nairobi advertising company. She began applying it every night to her whole face. Her skin grew lighter but every time she was exposed to too much sun "my face went red and three weeks later it would all peel off." Friends told her that the cream may be dangerous but she persisted. Even her maid started...
...Kariuki's new patrons, many of whom had never had a bed of their own, were getting their first taste of life in Ngata Children's Home, founded by and named after Kariuki, in Kirinyaga, the small village just north of Nairobi where he was born 63 years ago. The modest building will be both their home and their school until they turn 18. It is part of Kariuki's effort to do good and at the same time boost Kenyan tourism--by taking on a small part of a problem the government has been unable to address: dealing with...
...poverty and AIDS, which has alone orphaned some 900,000, Kenyan children continue to pour from rural villages into Nairobi, where street crime, according to Nairobi Central Business District Association chairman Philip Kisia, has increased in direct proportion to their numbers. Yet little has been done about them. Says Kariuki: "The government cannot deal with street kids and hopes the private sector--especially the tourism industry--can subsidize government effort...
...order to finance the Ngata Children's Home, Kariuki personally contributed to the costs of construction and to traditional community fund-raising events called harambees, Swahili for "pull together." He pays the monthly salaries for the 18 members of the home's management committee out of his pocket. Additional support comes from the community, which offered the land on which the home is built, as well as from local donors and the Kenyan Charity Sweepstakes. As much as 40% of the funding, however, comes from independent donors outside Kenya. Kariuki is directly involved in fund raising and is working...
Taking even one child off the streets helps, but the numbers Ngata can accommodate are a mere drop in the bucket. Kariuki hopes his pilot project will spawn others like it. Since the personal and financial investment is a sizable one that few Kenyans can afford, the success of the idea remains to be seen. In any case, Kariuki's motivations in trying to get the project going are as much personal as they are professional. One of eight children of a Salvation Army preacher and a nurse, Kariuki started his career in marketing. After a decade, eager to work...